"There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit - or fitness." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times

Clueless concept

When I read the phrase "concept bike", I always get a strange uneasy
feeling in the pit of my stomach. Except in the case of this [new fixie bike][] which made me throw up a little in my mouth.
[Thanks (for nothing) tom]

Shine on

The PHOTON BELL for bicycles: "If there is a group up ahead with
their backs to me, I dab the switch and an intense brightness, for a
quarter of a second, causes a spinal arc reflex in the group and
they gently part to the sides of the path, looking around for the
cause."

Awesome Twin Spotlamps: Take two matching torches, "the sort
that take the big 6V batteries with the springs"…whoa, this is not
going to be a lightweight setup!

Carrying more stuff

Worth the ASL?

Campus cycling

Verlyn Klinkenborg waxes lyrical in The New York Times on the
right kind of cyclist (i.e. those who don't wear "sleek and gaudy
costumes"):

There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as
though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to
every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without
considering for a moment matters of fit – or fitness.

Too ugly for the beauty contest

Yet again I fail to make the cut in the online beauty contest: [A list top 50 Cycling blogs by Blog Rank][].

Cars, teens and phones

One in four (26%) of American teens of driving age say they have
texted while driving, and half (48%) of all teens ages 12 to 17 say
they've been a passenger while a driver has texted behind the wheel.

Unsurprising, yet still chilling.

It's good for you. No, it's bad for you.

A study obtained by the ABC shows cycling injuries are being grossly
under-estimated…

Official bike injury statistics are based on police records. But not
all bike injuries are reported to police, and the report shows that 98
per cent of cycling injuries are not showing up in official
statistics.

The data are used to support this argument by Prof Drew Richardson of
Canberra Hospital for more segregation on the roads:

"I am very wary about cyclists and larger or faster vehicles sharing
the same space. When human beings share the same space they do tend to
bump into each other, whether it's in supermarket aisles or lifts. And
it's certainly true on the roads.